Here’s the latest on the Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah

• Police identified Tyler Robinson, 22, as the alleged assassin who fatally shot Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
• Robinson is expected to be charged with aggravated murder, among other state charges, according to a probable cause affidavit released on Sept. 12.
• Law enforcement confirmed that Robinson was living with a transgender roommate, and communications between the two helping the feds catch the alleged assassin.
• Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA creator, was attending an event on his American Comeback Tour when he was fatally shot in the neck by a single shot.
• President Trump was among many who have called for the assassin to receive the death penalty.
• Kirk’s body was brought to Arizona from Utah on Air Force Two, accompanied by Vice President JD Vance, and taken to Phoenix’s Hansen Mortuary Chapel.
• Kirk’s funeral, which President Trump has promised to attend, is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals.
• Kirk, a rising MAGA star, is survived by his wife and two young children.

U.S. — The entirety of the American higher education system has officially been designated a terrorist organization by the United States federal government.

Intelligence officials stated that the university system met all of the criteria for designation, including extremist indoctrination, promoting violence, and murdering dissidents.

“It checks all the boxes,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “Honestly, just charging $200,000 for a Sociology degree really should qualify as terrorism. They’ve gone even further, setting up literal training campsites, advocating violence, and targeting specific populations. No one has churned out more terrorists or terrorism supporters than the American university system. Plus, they still offer Sociology degrees. Horrifying.”

College administrators across the country expressed shock and outrage at the move by the government. “I am appalled,” said professor Marhsa Silversmith from behind her keffiyeh. “This is a disgusting attack on academic freedom. I have done nothing but teach students to abandon the identity of their youth, conform to our ideology, and do violence to any who oppose us. We will fight this label of terrorism by any means necessary, no matter how violent we have to be.”

At publishing time, Rubio had announced that the military would go ahead and bomb all Sociology departments for good measure.

Babylon Bee

Conservative pundits and bloggers are fond of asking themselves in times of crisis or despondency, “What would Ronald Reagan do?” I’m afraid I have bad news for you.  We are well past the point of “What would Ronald Reagan do?” We have reached the point of “What would Samuel Adams do?”

Samuel Adams was the Father of the American Revolution.   He fearlessly agitated and organized day and night for liberty and independence. He founded and coordinated the activities of the Sons of Liberty, an underground organization of patriotic merchants, artisans, and street toughs dedicated to making life miserable for the British government, while advancing the cause of liberty and independence. He could arguably be called “America’s first community organizer,” before the term was hijacked by Marxist thugs hellbent on imposing their warped agenda on a politically ignorant, house-trained citizenry.

So what would Sam Adams do today? Organize Tea Party bus tours and online petitions? Encourage us to make angry phone calls to our congressional representatives?  Hardly. Adams and his fellow travelers were active, in-your-face incendiaries in the cause of liberty. Tarring and feathering British officials and sympathizers or ransacking their homes was just another day at the office.  Adams was a brilliant and fearless seditionist and revolutionary tactician–always one step ahead of the law and always outwitting and outmaneuvering his adversaries. And he did it with aplomb. Sure, Adams was a prolific writer and propagandist, and would no doubt today be an active blogger.  But writing wasn’t a hobby or something he did while watching the Patriots.  It was an integral part of an active, ongoing, evolving strategy of agitation in the service of independence.

Sam Adams would, in all likelihood, consider today’s Tea Party a bunch of toothless wimps. The same goes for the Pajamas Media and the rest of the Tea Party bloggers and armchair, make-believe revolutionaries. Is blogging anonymously in your man-cave really comparable to openly pledging “your lives, your fortunes, and your sacred honor?”  I don’t think so.  Conservatives and libertarians and Tea Partiers all want change on the cheap. They want to radically reform the system without leaving the comfort of their homes or getting their hands dirty. Very few, I’d wager, have the courage to put their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the line for their professed beliefs. (Imagine where we’d be if the Founders had said, “I don’t know about this Declaration of Independence thing. I mean, the British might get mad at us.  We might lose our jobs.  Our health care.  Our 401-ks.”)

It’s time to face the grim reality—the United States is an occupied country.   The powerful are at the table, and the rest of us are on the menu.  If Tea Partiers think they’re going to take back their country from their man-caves without making waves or breaking a sweat, they’re smoking pixie dust.  It’s going to take more than pithy Tweets or inspired commentary to make these establishment bastards stand up and take notice.  It’s going to take a well-organized and sustained campaign of non-violent civil disobedience and resistance, while relentlessly and consistently speaking truth to power. We must aggressively challenge those who would have insidious designs on our liberty. They and their criminal schemes must be held to contempt and ridicule.  This is not going to be done quickly or easily; it’s going to take years of pain and hard work and struggle. Adversity summons the hero in all of us.

The Artful Dilettante—Conscience of the Second American Revolution

• The US power grid is under significant stress due to rapidly increasing electricity demand from AI data centers and electric vehicles, coupled with the retirement of traditional power plants.
• The grid faces mounting vulnerabilities from extreme weather events, cybersecurity threats, and physical sabotage, while policy gridlock and infrastructure delays hinder necessary upgrades.
• Despite challenges, the situation presents investment opportunities in grid modernization, diversified generation, and solutions for energy storage and load management.

America’s power grid is straining under the weight of a fast-changing energy landscape. Beyond the usual summer hum of air conditioners, power demand is surging from electric vehicle chargers and sprawling new data centers. At the same time, the infrastructure built to deliver reliable electricity is aging and showing its limits. From Texas heatwaves to California blackouts, the warning signs are impossible to ignore.

This isn’t a technical challenge—it’s an economic and political reckoning. If the grid fails, it won’t be because we lacked solutions. It will be because we didn’t act quickly enough. 

A Demand Surge Few Anticipated

For nearly two decades, U.S. electricity demand was flat. Now, consumption is climbing, driven by technologies that arrived faster than planners expected.

Artificial intelligence has unleashed a wave of data center construction. These facilities, dense with high-performance servers and cooling systems, are among the most power-hungry assets in the country. In 2023, AI data centers consumed about 4.4% of U.S. electricity, and that share could triple by 2028, according to Penn State’s Institute of Energy and the Environment.

Northern Virginia—“Data Center Alley”—now handles 70% of global internet traffic, pushing utilities like Dominion Energy to scramble for capacity. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google warn that a shortage of skilled electricians could delay expansion, with estimates that the U.S. will need 500,000 more electricians in the next decade.

Electric vehicles, heat pumps, and electrified industry are adding further strain. The Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee projects growth equivalent to seven Seattle-sized cities within ten years. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects U.S. electricity sales to rise from 4,097 billion kWh in 2024 to 4,193 billion kWh in 2025, with similar gains to follow.

And finally, there’s climate. As extreme heat events multiply, cooling demand in places like Texas and Arizona is surging—driving peak loads to new records.

The Supply Gap: Retirements Outpace Replacement

Just as demand is accelerating, the U.S. is retiring some of its most dependable sources of power.

The EIA projects 12.3 gigawatts (GW) of capacity will retire in 2025, a 65% jump over 2024. That includes 8.1 GW of coal, such as the 1,800-MW Intermountain Power Project in Utah, plus another 2.6 GW of natural gas. These plants provide round-the-clock power that intermittent sources cannot yet replace.

Wind and solar capacity continue to grow, but not fast enough. The Department of Energy’s July 2025 Resource Adequacy Report warns that only 22 GW of firm generation is expected by 2030—well short of the 104 GW needed for peak demand. Transmission bottlenecks, permitting delays, and slow adoption of long-duration storage compound the problem.

Grid operators from PJM, MISO, ERCOT, and others told Congress bluntly in March 2025: “Demand is accelerating, supply is lagging, and current tools may not be enough to bridge the gap.”

Growing Vulnerabilities: Weather, Cyber, and Sabotage

Beyond the supply-demand imbalance, the grid faces mounting risks.

Heatwaves, wildfires, and storms are stressing transmission systems nationwide. Events once considered rare—like the 2003 Northeast blackout that hit 50 million people—are now seen as precursors of larger disruptions.

As smart grids and distributed resources proliferate, so do digital entry points for hackers. In 2024, DOE funded 16 cybersecurity projects, including Georgia Tech’s AI-based “DerGuard” system to monitor risks in distributed energy.

Sabotage at substations and transmission lines is also rising. With more than 160,000 miles of high-voltage lines and 7,300 plants, much of it decades old, the system is a sprawling, exposed target. Homeland Security now classifies grid protection alongside nuclear and water infrastructure.

Policy Gridlock and Infrastructure Delays

Despite the alarms, policy responses remain sluggish.

Jurisdiction is a big part of the problem. Regional transmission operators manage the grid but don’t own generation or lines. Utilities do, while states control siting and permitting. The result is a patchwork that slows progress.

As of mid-2024, transmission projects across the U.S. faced delays of five to seven years due to permitting hurdles, interconnection bottlenecks, and supply chain constraints. By mid-2025, lead times for large power transformers had stretched beyond 30 months, with some units requiring up to four years for delivery—posing serious risks to grid reliability and expansion. 

Even bipartisan efforts like the CIRCUIT Act—introduced in February 2025 to incentivize domestic transformer production through a 10% tax credit—remain stalled in committee, despite widespread industry support and urgent supply chain concerns.

Meanwhile, subsidies continue to favor intermittent renewables over firm capacity. The Inflation Reduction Act accelerated clean energy deployment, but without parallel investment in balancing technologies, reliability risks grow.

What’s Being Done

Federal and private efforts are ramping up, though often as short-term fixes.

DOE has delayed retirements of coal and gas plants and issued reliability directives under the Federal Power Act. These measures keep the lights on but do little to build long-term resilience. DOE also aims to increase long-distance capacity 16% by 2030, adding 7,500 miles of new lines. But permitting delays and local resistance remain obstacles.

In 2025, DOE launched $32 million in pilot projects for smart EV charging, responsive buildings, and distributed energy integration. These solutions could eventually scale, but utilities and regulators must buy in.

Investor Implications: Reliability as a Premium

For investors, grid instability is a risk, but also an opportunity.

Companies like NextEra Energy, Dominion, and Avangrid are investing billions in grid modernization and diversified generation. Avangrid alone plans $20 billion through 2030 across 23 states.

Independent power producers are also benefiting from the shifting landscape. NRG Energy, one of the nation’s largest competitive power suppliers, has seen its shares climb sharply as rising demand boosts wholesale electricity prices. Unlike regulated utilities, NRG and its peers compete in deregulated markets, where higher load growth and tighter capacity directly translate into stronger margins. That dynamic could make competitive generators an overlooked winner in a strained grid environment.

Firms like Fluence, Stem Inc., and Tesla Energy are seeing growing demand for storage and microgrid solutions. Pilot programs backed by DOE may open new markets for software-driven load management.

With coal exiting and renewables constrained, power generated by nuclear energy and natural gas retain a “reliability premium.” Deloitte estimates the U.S. power sector will need $1.4 trillion in new capital between 2025 and 2030, with similar levels required through 2050. Firms able to supply firm generation or grid services stand to benefit.

Conclusion: Crisis or Course Correction?

The U.S. power grid isn’t collapsing—but it is under pressure like never before. Demand growth, baseload retirements, extreme weather, and policy paralysis are colliding to create a fragile system.

Whether this moment becomes a crisis or a correction depends on how quickly policymakers, utilities, and investors adapt. The tools exist—firm generation, smart load management, and modern transmission. But without faster coordination and realistic incentives, the U.S. risks trading energy abundance for energy fragility.

By Robert Rapier

The alleged ‘radicalized’ assassin did not get to this moment on his own. Investigation details show a young man steeped in leftist dogma.

After an intensive, multi-day manhunt, law enforcement officials on Friday said they had taken into custody conservative icon Charlie Kirk’s killer. Police assert 22-year-old Tyler Robinson “acted alone” in assassinating the Turning Point USA founder. 

But did he? 

Authorities said Robinson’s roommate shared with investigators the alleged cold-blooded killer’s communications on messaging app Discord. In them, the suspect discusses “a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to visually watching the area where a rifle was left, and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel.”

The shooter was certainly radicalized by a leftist terrorist network, and it seems like he may have also coordinated with them for the attack

The FBI should be going scorched earth on them as we speak

Lists, names, raids, arrests, action, no excuses https://t.co/rtYvlyH3mt— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) 

At a press conference Friday morning, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said investigators found a Mauser Model 98 .30-06 caliber, bolt-action rifle with a mounted scope in a wooded area on the Utah university campus where Kirk was fatally shot. Cox said the inscription on the fired casing read, “Notices bulges OwO What’s This?” That is apparently a reference to online memes tied to animated videos and “furry culture,” a fetish.

Two unfired casings found next to the rifle wrapped in a dark towel included separate inscriptions, Cox said: “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,” and “Hey fascist! Catch!” next to arrows pointing up, right, down, down, and down. According to multiple reports, the arrows represent an input code for an airstrike in a multi-person violent video game known as “Helldivers 2.” The code, too, has been used in memes “to signify a devastating reaction to something that should be destroyed,” USA Today reported. 

“Bella Ciao” is an Italian antifascist song.

‘Radicalized’

As The Blaze’s Auron Macintyre put it, the shooter appears to have been “radicalized by a leftist terrorist network, and it seems like he may have also coordinated with them for the attack.”

“The FBI should be going scorched earth on them as we speak,” Macintyre wrote on X. “Lists, names, raids, arrests, action, no excuses.” 

“Catch this, Fascist!” –> obvious

“Bella ciao” –> Italian antifascist song

“Notices bulge OWO what’s this?” –> discord furry meme with roots in Tumblr sexuality https://t.co/2AlNcRwpYd— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) September 12, 2025

Even if the alleged assassin “acted alone,” he surely did not get to this moment on his own. We know so far from the early details of the investigation that the suspect appears steeped in Marxist Antifa-style indoctrination.

The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway said the stunning murder of the 31-year-old conservative leader needs to be a “wake-up call” to Congress.

“We’ve seen a lot of weakness and impotence on the right, so Republican leaders need to not just stand up there and say, ‘Oh, we must condemn—both sides do these things,’ Hemingway told Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney this week. “They need to actually take the threat from left-wing activists very seriously. They need to investigate how they’re funded—Antifa, other terrorist groups. They’re going to war against ICE. You know, they tried to kill Donald Trump. They’ve successfully killed Charlie Kirk.”

President Trump earlier this week said his administration planned to investigate funding sources of violent far-left campaigns, noting leftist billionaire George Soros and his “nonprofits.”  

“We’re going to look into Soros because I think it’s a RICO [racketeering] case against him and other people, because this is more than protests. This is real agitation. This is riots on the street — and we’re going to look into that,” Trump told Fox News.

.@POTUS: “We’re going to look into Soros because I think it’s a RICO case against him and other people because this is more than protests. This is real agitation; this is riots on the street — and we’re going to look into that.” pic.twitter.com/zwUr03G5DA— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 12, 2025

Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., a member of the House Oversight Committee, told The Federalist he believes it is long past time for Congress to take a closer look at the activities and funding sources of leftist extremist organizations. Kirk’s assassination has made that effort all the more urgent.

‘Follow the Money’

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wants the House to form a select committee on “The money, influence, and power behind the radical left’s assault on America and the rule of law.”

“In the wake of numerous attacks on our way of life, the destruction of the rule of law, and the murder of innocent Americans, prominent and unknown alike, we must take every step to follow the money and uncover the force behind the NGOs, donors, media, public officials, and all entities driving this coordinated attack,” Roy said Thursday in a press release. 

“The patterns are undeniable: we are witnessing a sustained breakdown of law and order, fueled not by chance, but by anti-American ideology,” Roy wrote in a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. “Of course, we witnessed the 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump as well as the 2017 shooting of Republican lawmakers at baseball practice, but it goes well beyond politicians and to the people themselves.”

He noted the “targets” placed on Kirk and the Family Research Council by the Southern Poverty Law Center after SPLC, an influential leftist hate group, added the two to their “Hate Map.” He also noted Marxist networks such as Antifa have organized, funded, and deployed “sophisticated terror campaigns attacking law enforcement and destroying American cities.”

The lawmaker said the best option is a stand-alone committee with full authority to investigate. Its members should have prosecutorial and law enforcement backgrounds, and the committee should be granted full subpoena powers, Roy wrote. 

“We can no longer pretend to be bound together by shared ideals when a well-funded, vitriolic cadre of our fellow Americans and foreign interests are at war with the very values of faith in God, fidelity to our Constitution, and respect for the principles of liberty and Western Civilization that define us as Americans – including, notably, the free speech practiced and exemplified by Charlie Kirk,” the congressman added. 

Those leftist networks, at least at some level, include the U.S. institutions of higher education that have become dens of radical leftism — “safe spaces” for Marxist, America-hating ideology at taxpayers’ expense.

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism.

An American icon was assassinated.

In a nation whose foundation is free speech and religious liberty, Charlie Kirk was murdered (at least it seems glaringly apparent) for exercising those freedoms.

Charlie transformed conservatism in America not only for people of all ages. He was pro-Jesus, pro-life, pro-family, and pro-Constitution. He proved that Truth was always worth the hard work and intellectual pursuit. Without a college degree, he exposed the moral rot and academic dishonesty in higher education and in our politics.

Is there any equivalent to Charlie Kirk in the progressive Left? Is there any leftist who would be willing to appear on college campuses across the country giving voice to those who disagreed with him or her? Charlie’s “Prove Me Wrong” events were a powerful way to show that our differences of opinion are best served by lots of discussion. As a public speaker, myself, I know the intolerant culture that is the defining hallmark of way too many colleges and universities. I’ve been cancelled. I’ve received death threats. I’ve been protested. I’ve been smoke-bombed out of a lecture. I’ve had to hire bodyguards. Why? Because truth is a threat to those who’d rather cling to lazy lies.

Courage is not in limited supply. It’s just rarely chosen. The path of least resistance is so much more appealing. Who wants to be unfriended (in real life or online)? Who wants to be unliked by friends or family or coworkers? Who wants to lose half of your congregation because you’ve dared to speak Biblical Truth? Who wants to face the mob’s wrath when speaking about abortion, gender radicalism, fatherlessness, (actual) racism or the War on Common Sense?

Sometimes, some of us choose the path of most resistance.

As a husband and father, I cannot imagine the devastating turmoil his wife Erika is facing. Honestly, I’m wrecked by his slaughter. His two young children will never be able to hug and be held by their daddy ever again on this side of Heaven. Charlie loved the Lord, and it was powerful to see his faith journey unfold. He came to recognize that our fight is first spiritual and moral. The cultural and the political are either shaped or misshaped by our worldview. Only a belief system rooted in the liberating Truth of God’s Word sets us free. Not politics. Not wealth. Not social position.

May his family somehow find the peace that only knowing and loving Jesus can bring.

Charlie was an inspiration. He started Turning Point USA at the age of 18. He refused to accept the status quo and showed youth across America that silence should never be an option. I’ve shared the stage at a couple of events with Charlie, but one of the moments I remember best happened outside the event venue.

Years ago, Charlie and Candace Owens were walking to the conference center in Denver, Colorado. I was headed there as well to speak. I introduced myself to both of them and thanked them for their courage, their wit, and their passion for Truth. We walked and talked for a few minutes only to be met outside of the center by protesters demanding “gun control”. We all stopped and engaged the activists. I started videoing the exchanges. Instead of running away from people who angrily disagreed with us, we talked to them. The result was an eventual calming and civil discourse. Those thirty minutes really impacted me.

This is how Democracy works. We disagree. We talk. We empathize. We learn. And sometimes, we rethink.

There is no America without free speech and religious liberty. This can’t be stated strongly enough. It’s the reason why people like Charlie are so hated by the Left. They detest when people don’t bow at the fake altar of “unity” (aka forced conformity). We can never be unified with a lie. For a political demographic that constantly rants about “diversity”, they despise diversity of thought. Free speech is the enemy. Somehow, the “land of the free and home of the brave” has been warped by so-called progressivism into the “land of the ideologically enslaved and home of the afraid.”

It makes me think of the powerful words of former slave and champion for human rights, Frederick Douglass, who battled the activism of silencing. The abolitionist movement couldn’t exist without the First Amendment. In his 1860 speech, “A Plea for Free Speech in Boston”, Douglass proclaimed: “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.”

How much are we robbed, on a regular basis, from hearing the truth? In schools? From the government? In (Bible-evading) churches? From Hollywood? On social media? Thankfully, we have organizations, like Alliance Defending Freedom, that fight for our most fundamental right. I’ve always loved their response to unconstitutional censorship: “The answer to speech we disagree with is not censorship but more speech.”

Political violence is sheer cowardice. It’s sheer evil.

George Orwell once wrote: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” It’s those words and ideas that may revolutionize people’s lives, free them from their emotional, political, or spiritual shackles and lead them to become someone who spreads more life-changing freedom.

Charlie Kirk did not deserve such a horrifically violent end. My faith affirms the fact that he is with the Savior. But it is way, way too early.

Refuse to live in fear. Refuse to hate Truth. Refuse to deny someone else’s God-given worth. It’s on all of us to make America better than this.

Ryan Bomberger, Life News

Yes, that is mega-successful horror author Stephen King saying that Charlie Kirk “advocated stoning gays to death” as justification for his murder.

His post was so outrageous that sitting members of Congress called publicly for a lawsuit over the statement.

What King did is frame an ideological opponent as the most extreme example of a straw man. Either unknowingly or purposely, he lied about who Kirk is in order to better justify the shedding of blood. If this was not the case, then woke men like Stephen King would have some level of congruity in their worldview. Instead, their beliefs are so screwed up that they accuse normal American dudes of wanting to stone gays while also supporting the people who actually do want to stone gays.

As many people have said in the last 48 hours, Kirk was the moderate option. His entire mission was to have dialogue with people who disagree because the moment a nation stops talking, national divorce is inevitable.

As for Kirk’s views on gays, please stare directly at this and tell me if it lines up with Stephen King’s version of reality:

It should be shocking to see such a willful misrepresentation of who Kirk was. And yet, across the Western world, everyone from local schoolteachers to BBC newscasters have lied and lied and lied some more about a man who was shot in front of a crowd of people, including his own wife and kids.

For years, the Left has compared normal, average American men and women to Nazis and their leaders to Hitler. They do it daily. They whip themselves into a frenzy, reassuring their compatriots that they are fighting against fascism.

The outcome of such rhetoric is baked into the cake. It always has been. Kirk’s assassination was simply the outpouring of a single, focused wish:

To kill you, your family, and everyone like you. Have you forgotten that they went crazy in July because of a simple Sydney Sweeney jeans ad?

If you haven’t noticed, they hate a British feminist who wrote a children’s series about good fighting evil because she doesn’t want men in the women’s bathroom.

J.K. Rowling nails it: The people arguing with her are not interested in being tolerant, open-minded, welcoming, or finding common ground so that we can move forward together.

They want to conquer and kill, but they need to dehumanize you in order to sear their consciences for the job.

In the wake of this assassination, many people are trying to cool the temperature. Many people are calling for peace and unity. The impulse is good, but lambs cannot have peace with wolves that want to kill them.

Have you ever heard that ancient children’s tale?

Calling for a superficial “peace” when people are rightfully hurt is also unjust and unkind. Per Jeremiah 6:14:

They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.

We do need to have unity. We do need to find common ground. We need to pray and encourage each other and welcome each other.

But this unity cannot include those who want to kill us. Have the same people saying we need to go back to 2012 forgotten that in 2012, those people labelled Mitt Romney, perhaps the most liberal Republican in the Senate, an extremist who wanted to put black people “back in chains” and left people destitute with cancer by shutting down a steel plant?

In this way, Kirk’s murder actually provides us with a roadmap and a litmus test toward unity. As Kirk himself said years ago:

Anyone who sees Kirk’s assassination as an abject evil and mourns his death despite any philosophical differences is an ally. Anyone caught celebrating his death or justifying it by claiming he was a fascist cannot be an ally.

Put aside the labels of Republican and Democrat or the 200-year-old understanding of “Left” and “Right” in Western politics. Kirk’s death serves as another milestone in a transition to a different kind of political divide entirely.

Can you live among people who believe and vote differently from you? Do you want to see the best for people you don’t particularly like, or at the bare minimum, not wish pain and suffering on them?

Then welcome! Glad to have you!

Joel Abbott, Not the Bee

Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on September 10, 2025, while on stage at a speaking event at Utah Valley University. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a powerful narrative has emerged among his millions of supporters and numerous faith leaders: that Charlie Kirk was a martyr, killed not just for his political beliefs, but for his increasingly bold and uncompromising proclamation of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Born October 14, 1993, Kirk was initially known for his focus on conservative economics and political organizing. However, in the final years of his life, his work and public identity became inseparable from his evangelical Christian faith. He moved beyond general “values” to a specific, Christ-centered message, weaving themes of salvation, repentance, and the Lordship of Jesus into his political and cultural commentary.

Examples of his public faith were frequent and clear:

Proclaiming Salvation Through Christ: Kirk often articulated the core tenets of the gospel. In a widely circulated clip from a campus Q&A, he responded to a question about social justice by stating, “No amount of social progress can fix the human heart. That’s a sin problem, and the only answer to the sin problem is the blood of Jesus Christ. He is the only way, the truth, and the life.”

Emphasis on Jesus as Lord: He made a clear distinction between a cultural Christianity and a personal relationship with a reigning Christ. During a Turning Point Faith event, he declared, “We are not just a nation that has ‘Christian values.’ We must be a nation that serves a King, and that King is Jesus. He is Lord over your family, He is Lord over your business, and He must be Lord over our nation.”

Personal Testimony and Public Witness: In interviews and speeches, Kirk began to speak more personally about his own faith journey. “I am a sinner saved by grace,” he stated on a podcast in 2024. “Every good thing I have, every bit of strength I possess, is not my own. It is a gift from Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, who died so that I might live.”

Final Public Statements: His final social media posts were overtly Christian. Just three days before his death, on September 7, 2025, he posted on X, “Jesus defeated death so you can live,” a direct reference to the resurrection. This, combined with a recently surfaced video where he said he wanted to be remembered for his “courage for my faith,” is seen by his supporters as a final testament.

Friends and colleagues, like Pastor Jack Hibbs, described him as a “fervid Christ follower” who understood the spiritual battle he was in. They contend that as his message became more explicitly Christian, the opposition he faced grew more intense. For them, his death was not a random act of political violence, but the ultimate consequence of his refusal to be silent about the Lordship of Jesus Christ in an increasingly hostile culture. As such, he is remembered by millions not just as a conservative activist, but as an American martyr who proclaimed his Savior until the very end.

AI/Gemini

Haunting words from Charlie Kirk on X, posted several months before his own assassination culture:

“Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump,” Kirk wrote in his post on X.

“The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.”

Kirk called the violent momentum a “natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture.” He accused the culture of tolerating “violence and mayhem,” while also slamming “the cowardice” of local prosecutors and school officials for their complicity in promoting the trend of violent attitudes.

“The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb,” Kirk wrote in his post.

In Kirk’s post, he also pointed to the fact that voters in California were effectively eulogizing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murderer Luigi Mangione by naming a state ballot measure after him. It was called the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act, which sought to make it more difficult for medical insurance companies to deny claims for treatments or medications.

It seems that half of Democrats are sociopaths, while the other half either cheer them on or ignorantly support them.

Charlie Kirk grasped this even before they executed him.

If anyone you consider a friend or loved one is cheering Charlie Kirk’s death on social media or elsewhere, think deeply for a moment about the kind of company you keep. Blood relation should not be an excuse.

Make your own family — with people who don’t cheer for violent savages.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

You know you are an articulate thinker when the left assassinates you.

Here’s the best way to honor Charlie Kirk: Tell your leftist and Democratic friends that you won’t let them get away with claiming their side is for peace, love, empathy, diversity, tolerance and brotherhood any longer. Democrats, like all fascists, Communists and totalitarians, are about one thing only: violence and brute force.

If you continue to support these monsters, then you are no better. You can all go to the hell you are progressively trying to create for the rest of us.

Leftists are out for blood.

They are savages armed with billions.

When will we start fighting fire with triple firepower?

Dan Bornt writes (on Facebook): Like 1861, this is the Democrat Party’s “Fort Sumter” moment of violent insurrection. This party must be crushed, its leaders arrested for treason, and the party disbanded.

AT A MINIMUM.

The leftists killed Charlie Kirk because they are not afraid.

It’s time to make them afraid.

Conchita Vecchio writes (on Facebook): Years of taking the high road and the “we’re better than that” attitude got us to this point. For years they’ve become emboldened while we turned the other cheek, moving the goal posts to see just how far they could get away with it. It stops now.

Jon Simon writes (on Facebook): Charlie Kirk did a great service by standing up and putting good sense out to the world. That’s a very dangerous occupation, unfortunately. He may be gone but the minds he inspired will continue the work well beyond him now. And we certainly have our work cut out for us.

“No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
A sniper is a coward, not a hero—and an uncontrolled mob is the voice of madness— not the voice of the people.”

“Once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth teller of an era. My dear friend Charlie Kirk was our country’s relentless and courageous crusader for free speech. We pray for Erika and the children. Charlie is already in paradise with the angels. We ask his prayers for our country.”

–Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,
Cleveland, Ohio, April 1968

–Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., 9-10-25

Progressivism, leftism, woke-ism — it’s a malignancy. If we allow it to continue to dominate everything, it will metastasize and devour all that is worthwhile.

Charlie Kirk is its latest victim. We have to stop being victims and start fighting to WIN.

“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”

-Ayn Rand

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason